Annotation:Culloden Day (2)

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CULLODEN DAY [2] (An cuala sibh mar thachair dhuinn). Scottish, Strathspey. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. This tune "was a song march in repute with Jacobites, lamenting their fate at {the 1745 Battle of} Culloden" (Fraser).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816/1874; No. 143, p. 58.

Recorded sources:

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